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<font face="Verdana">Hi Heather...<br>
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I believe that FM's default DITA support doesn't respond to
editing the image attributes directly (might work with some of
them). Select the anchored frame and choose Special > Anchored
Frame, then select the desired alignment. This will set the frame
alignment and *should* set the alignment attribute as well. There
are a number of other properties/attributes that work this way as
well. In general, it's set up to use the "GUI" property setting
options rather than setting things via attributes.<br>
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You should be able set the default value in the EDD and the r/w
rules, and it should honor that when inserting the image. If it
doesn't, that's definitely a bug.<br>
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BTW .. DITA-FMx does these things properly. :o<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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...scott<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/11/13 12:19 PM, Heather Thomas
wrote:<br>
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<div>Thank you, Nadine and Scott, for your replies.<br>
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Nadine: I am using FM 11 (sorry I didn't specify in my first
post). Yes, I want to change the default alignment of images.
I did change the default setting in the EDD and then import
the element definitions into my template. I know that the EDD
was imported because when I set choices vs. string, I could
see the choices in the Attributes pod. What I'm asking is why
FrameMaker is ignoring the default of left that I set and
leaving it as <no value>, but instead is making it
center aligned when I save. What's especially mysterious is
that it actually says at the bottom of the Attributes pod
"align Type: Optional Choice Default: left" but doesn't use
that default value.<br>
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Scott: Thanks for your suggestion to "use the default image
properties dialog. Don't try setting the element attribute." I
happily excused your unexpected brevity because you sent your
message from your phone. :) Perhaps sometime when you are at
your computer, could you please elaborate on this? I can't
find the dialog you mentioned, and if this is actually a bug
that I can't set the element attribute using my EDD, then I
would like to report it. I have read your response on the
following Adobe forum post:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://forums.adobe.com/message/3681019">http://forums.adobe.com/message/3681019</a>. Like the original
poster there, the Anchored Frame dialog works properly for me.
Manually setting the attribute to left does what I would
expect as well. I have also ensured that I have the following
in my rules:<br>
<em>attribute "align" {</em>
<p><em> is fm attribute "align";</em></p>
<p><em> is fm property alignment;</em></p>
<p><em> value "left" is fm property value align left;</em></p>
Like I said before, it's not critical or anything, but it
would be nice if we could set the default alignment in the EDD
and have FM obey it.<br>
<br>
Thanks again!<br>
Heather<br>
<br>
PS - Please note that there is a delay of at least 24 hours
from the time I post to the time my message appears on the
list.<br>
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